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> Sorry for only getting back to you all now.
>
> Thanks for all your input which I found most informative. My knives
> have broken tips and are simply getting long in the tooth and frankly
> since I do so much cooking, I deserve better. In a sense I was
> deliberately vague about what I wanted because I expected one brand
> name to be THE best, but I guess it's not the case. I'm not bothered
> with steak and carving knives. Most of my work in the kitchen is
> chopping veg and cutting meat.
>
> brooklyn1 & Neil: Please don't start throwing knives at each
> other. :-)

We don't have knives in Brooklyn, we have shivs, switchblades.

"brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> > wrote in message
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>> Sorry for only getting back to you all now.
>>
>> Thanks for all your input which I found most informative. My knives
>> have broken tips and are simply getting long in the tooth and frankly
>> since I do so much cooking, I deserve better. In a sense I was
>> deliberately vague about what I wanted because I expected one brand
>> name to be THE best, but I guess it's not the case. I'm not bothered
>> with steak and carving knives. Most of my work in the kitchen is
>> chopping veg and cutting meat.
>>
>> brooklyn1 & Neil: Please don't start throwing knives at each
>> other. :-)
>
> We don't have knives in Brooklyn, we have shivs, switchblades.
>
>
>

But the good switchblades are all made in Italy. Just got mine, I'm ready.

"Kswck" > wrote in message
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> "brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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>> > wrote in message
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>>> Sorry for only getting back to you all now.
>>>
>>> Thanks for all your input which I found most informative. My knives
>>> have broken tips and are simply getting long in the tooth and frankly
>>> since I do so much cooking, I deserve better. In a sense I was
>>> deliberately vague about what I wanted because I expected one brand
>>> name to be THE best, but I guess it's not the case. I'm not bothered
>>> with steak and carving knives. Most of my work in the kitchen is
>>> chopping veg and cutting meat.
>>>
>>> brooklyn1 & Neil: Please don't start throwing knives at each
>>> other. :-)
>>
>> We don't have knives in Brooklyn, we have shivs, switchblades.
>
> But the good switchblades are all made in Italy. Just got mine, I'm ready.
>
Do you have your Puerto Rican fence climbers... I think in the UK they're
called Winkle Pickers.